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by voltagex_ 4384 days ago
Looks like there's a tiny little emulator for this, too.

https://github.com/ICTeam28/PiEmu

I've got as far as installing the SDL headers (you're looking for SDL.h from SDL 1.2) and running cmake . but not much further.
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lnandor 4384 days ago
Hello,

I have added a more informative README and fixed a couple of issues that prevented the game from running. In case you need any more help, could we move this discussion to GitHub issues?

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voltagex_ 4384 days ago
Just replied to someone else before you posted this. Thanks!
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serialvelocity 4384 days ago
Hey, I'm part of the team who wrote this. What platform are you running on? and what errors are you getting?
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voltagex_ 4384 days ago
Hey, congrats on this project.

Mainly I was waiting to reboot into Linux to try to build this.

You may want to add some instructions for building the game/emulator.

For the emulator, I'd never used cmake before (sort of) so I didn't know to run cmake .

Then the error about SDL (needed libsdl-dev package or similar)

For the game, I'm currently downloading a Linaro ARM toolchain on a slow connection but I don't anticipate any further issues.

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serialvelocity 4384 days ago
Thanks! It currently only works on Linux, so depending on your distro, you need to install the SDL package. If you're using Debian or Ubuntu (or derivatives), it will be sufficient to install the libsdl-dev and cmake packages using apt-get. Then create a build directory and use CMake to generate makefiles then build the emulator with make.

To set up the build environment, follow these instructions:

   cd /dir/to/PiEmu/
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake ..
   make
These instructions are also on the README.md for PiEmu in-case anyone else is wondering how to get it building.
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voltagex_ 4384 days ago
To add to this, the latest "official" Raspberry Pi toolchain is at https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools. You probably want the one without hf in the name.

serialvelocity - am I correct in assuming you're building for softfp?

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voltagex_ 4384 days ago
I sit corrected. I'm currently having lots of trouble building the game because my cross compiler doesn't match the name of yours in the makefiles.

> make[2]: arm-linux-gnueabi-as: Command not found

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jnbiche 4384 days ago
Nice project! Did you use JTAG or some other (more painful) work flow?
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